hosting your own website

[Eric Dunbar]

On 12/17/05, Christian Eichert <moga at mx.homelinux.org> wrote:
> R.L.Reingard schrieb:
> >
> > hello,
> > i got an own domain name and would like to host the website on my own
> > machine.
> > does anyone know a nice link with an easy understandable HOWTO? best
> > would  be in german.
> > AND is anybody willing to assist me - by mail dialog - as i guess there
> > will be more than one question to reach that goal.
> > thank you,
> > best regards
> > René
> >
>
> If you live in Germany you can request a fix IP from T-Com
> They supply DSL with fix IP's since september
>
> with dyn IP it is very difficult and costs a lot of money

Hello René,

I used DynDNS for nearly a year to point my domain name to my server.
It's free and quite reliable:

<http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/>

I had to do three things:
1. Open a DynDNS account and register a free xyz.abc.def domain. They
have a lot of domains for you to choose from
(<http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/domains.html>).

2. Point my domain name (e.g. www.rene.de) to my DynDNS domain name
(e.g. www.rene.de points to www.rene.dyndns.org). Your "registrar" may
do this for you, but, if they do not, there are free ways of doing
this (e.g. http://www.zoneedit.com/).

3. You then need to tell DynDNS what your current IP address is and
keep DynDNS updated whenever your IP address changes. My router
(NetGear 614MR) could do this. I configured my router to update my
DynDNS account with my current IP address whenever it changed. LinkSys
and DLink should be able to do this as well.

3. Alternate #3: you can install software on your server which will
keep DynDNS updated. See
<http://ubuntuguide.org/#assignhostnametodynamicip> for really simple
instructions. Note: these instructions are for Ubuntu 5.04. The
PROBABLY work for 5.10 but there's a chance they will not.

Good luck, Eric.